First Focus on Children gathered experts and day-to-day implementers of H.R. 1 from key states to discuss the law’s impact on Medicaid, SNAP, and children's social safety net. Watch by clicking below.
Children's Budget 2025 finds that the share of federal spending on children has declined for the fourth straight year, hitting its lowest point since the previous Trump Administration.
Our policy team analyzes the granular policy agenda intended to serve as the “playbook” for a Republican presidential administration. This extremist agenda proposes measures that would leave America’s children poorer, sicker, and less likely to become productive citizens. Our series explores some of the most harmful proposals.
Babies in the Budget 2025 tracks the federal government's chronic underfunding of the nation's babies. In Fiscal Year (FY) 2025, just 1.59% of all federal spending went toward supporting children under 3. This investment will shrink further as historic cuts to Medicaid and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) enacted by the recent reconciliation bill take effect.
As the House returned this week, First Focus on Children offered lawmakers innovative suggestions for using the tax code…
First Focus on Children’s Chad Bolt joins the MomsRising podcast to discuss how the Farm Bill and cuts to…
First Focus on Children urged the House Ways and Means Tax Subcommittee to embrace policies that meaningfully support children…
Online access will help children who have lost a parent First Focus on Children and other leading advocacy organizations…
State Letters Threaten to End All Federal Medicaid Funding The Trump Administration’s decision to freeze more than a billion…
First Focus Campaign For Children delivered a letter of support today to the sponsors of the Supporting Newborn Parents…
For more than 15 years, First Focus on Children has produced our annual Children’s Budget, an analysis of the funding — and therefore the value — that we as a nation place on our children. The Children’s Budget offers U.S. leaders and lawmakers a comprehensive picture of where and how we spend our money on children, and what changes we must make to better prioritize them in federal budget and policy decisions.
